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FM UKDEL HOUSTON
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 008
OF 10041OZ JULY 90
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JAPAN /IK Wish
INFO IMMEDIATE TOKYO, WASHINGTON, PEKING, HONG KONG INFO PRIORITY EC POSTS, UKREP BRUSSELS, UKMIS NEW YORK
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FROM PRIVATE SECRETARY
SECRETARY OF STATE'S BILATERAL WITH THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER
SUMMARY
JAPANESE AGREE THAT ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO THE SOVIET UNION SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON KNOW-HOW RATHER THAN MAJOR CREDITS. SUPPORT FOR RELAXATION OF MEASURES AGAINST CHINA. PESSIMISM ON CAMBODIA.
DETAIL
2. THE SECRETARY OF STATE MET NAKAYAMA ON 8 JULY IN THE MARGINS OF THE HOUSTON ECONOMIC SUMMIT.
AID TO THE SOVIET UNION AND THE NORTHERN TERRITORIES
3. NAKAYAMA GAVE A LENGTHY EXPOSITION OF THE HISTORY OF THE
SOVIET OCCUPATION OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORIES. SHEVARDNADZE WAS EXPECTED TO VISIT TOKYO IN EARLY SEPTEMBER, AT WHICH TIME BOTH THE TERRITORIAL ISSUE AND THE QUESTION OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE SOVIET UNION WOULD BE DISCUSSED. THE SECRETARY OF STATE COMMENTED THAT, PUT BLUNTLY, THE SOVIET UNION WOULD ASK A PRICE FOR A SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT. NAKAYAMA AGREED: WHEN THE RUSSIANS ASKED, THE JAPANESE WOULD THINK ABOUT IT.
4. ON ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE FOR THE SOVIET UNION, NAKAYAMA SAID THAT JAPAN SUPPORTED PERESTROIKA. BUT PERESTROIKA WAS
NOT GOING WELL. HE ASCRIBED THIS TO A LACK OF MANAGEMENT ABILITY AND OF KNOW-HOW IN THE OPERATION OF A MARKET ECONOMY.
HE LIKENED THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES TO GIVING SUGAR TO A DIABETIC. JAPAN WAS ENGAGED
IN KNOW-HOW ASUISTANCE. THERE HAD BEEN TWO ECONOMIC MISSIONS FROM THE SOVIET UNION, WHICH THE RUSSIANS HAD APPRECIATED. JAPAN HAD ALSO OFFERED EQUIPMENT AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT KNOW-HOW
FOR DEALING WITH THE LONGER TERM VICTIMS OF CHERNOBYL. 5. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID THAT OUR VIEWS WERE CLOSE.
THERE MIGHT BE A CASE FOR INCREASING OFFERS OF KNOW-HOW IN
PARTICULAR FIELDS. BUT THIS WAS DIFFERENT TO OFFERING HUGE
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